Pentesting, System Hardening & IT Security Blog

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I was originally writing another blog post which I will now have to finish later but the recent discussion with @TalkTalkCare has left me little choice, so I wrote this one first instead. I want to address the problem, that a certain untruth doesn’t seem to die no matter how often the topic is bro...